U.S. Apparel Retailers Drive RFID Adoption

Large and midsize retailers are moving forward with deployments, as the industry comes together under the VICS Item Level RFID Initiative to ensure that companies embrace standards and common best practices.

During my presentation, I explained why RFID technology is ideally suited for tracking individual apparel items from the moment they are manufactured until they are sold, and I provided an overview of some international deployments. One audience member asked whether I think the United States is ahead, behind or about equal with other regions in terms of adoption pace, and I responded that this country is ahead of the game.

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Tilak Dias

2011-11-04 03:23:48 AM

RFID Yarns
We at Nottinhgham Trent University has developed a core technology platform to embed micro semiconductor devices within the fibres of a yarn. One of the prototypes that has been created to demonstrate the feasibility of the new technology is a RFID yarn embedded with the Hitachi MU chip and NXP Gen 2 chip.
The advantage of our RFID yarn is that it can be easily integrated into a garment at the sewing stage; i.e. it can be incoprated into the seam of a garment thus making it complelety invisible.
We are currently looking for industrial partners to commercialise this technology and wonder whether there are any interested parties.

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